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- ukit
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
"Panayiotis Zavos has broken the ultimate taboo of transferring cloned embryos into the human womb, a procedure that is a criminal offence in Britain and illegal in many other countries.
None of the embryo transfers led to a viable pregnancy but Dr Zavos said yesterday that this was just the "first chapter" in his ongoing and serious attempts at producing a baby cloned from the skin cells of its "parent".
"There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen," Dr Zavos said in an interview yesterday with The Independent.
Dr Zavos also revealed that he has produced cloned embryos of three dead people, including a 10-year-old child called Cady, who died in a car crash. He did so after being asked by grieving relatives if he could create biological clones of their loved ones. "
- ********0
sometimes I want to jump back and kiss myself...would cloning allow me to do that?
- ukit0
- 7point340
i don't get into too many religious debates on here, but a clone of a deceased loved one seems unnaturally disturbing to me.
- Yeah, but if they spliced my grandpa's DNA into a dog I'd be okay with it... he would sleep outside, and would lick my nuts when asked.BuddhaHat
- yeah. even beyond religion, thats morally creepy as shit. Cloning dead pets is becoming increasingly poplar.baseline_shift
- when asked...BuddhaHat
- LOL @ buddahbaseline_shift
- just twisted as all fuck... it's weirding me out just thinking about it7point34
- damn you train-of-thought, you ruined my train of thought :PBuddhaHat
- It's gonna happen, just a matter of time. yikes.zarkonite
- monospaced0
There's nothing, biologically speaking, that would even suggest that the cloned individual would be much like their original. Events occurring in-utero, the mother's diet, how they're raised, cultural and environmental impacts during childhood, exposure to knowledge and a host of other factors will render the "clone" a very different individual. There's not much to be scared or disturbed about really.
- monospaced0
Morally speaking, cloning happens naturally all the time. Identical twins are created during cell division, early in development, and they hardly ever come out completely identical. They sure as hell don't share thoughts, and most of the similarities are those shared by most siblings close in age. Basically, cloning isn't really encroaching on religious beliefs at all.
- you dont choose identical twins. You have to agree there is moral grey area in cloning humans.baseline_shift
- I don't have to, because I can't see one. How is it morally iffy when the clone is a totally different person?monospaced
- So you dont agree that making the choice to grow humans in a lab has moral grey area? Think of the potential ramifications.baseline_shift
- For me, its less about it being a 'different person', cause they will be. Its about the decision to use science to grant human life.baseline_shift
- There are no potential ramifications, that's my point.monospaced
- How about a clone army? How about cloning someone without their consent?baseline_shift
- wouldn't matter, they're individualsmonospaced
- _niko0
Imagine you lost a child at age 5 then cloned him and brought him back, then the cloned child also died at 5 to the day, then you tried it again and the same thing happened.
like a bad twilight zone episode.
- rayborn30000
Planet Earth would be a lot cooler if we had clones ... let there be clones!
